Primer Premier 6.20 Released

The latest changes at the NCBI BLAST, including latest genomic databases and fixes to reported problems are also accommodated.

Primer Premier 6.11 Released

The upgrade offers compatibility with Lion, Mac OS X 10.7.

The latest changes at the NCBI BLAST, including latest genomic databases and fixes to reported problems are also accommodated.

Primer Premier 6.10 Released

Primer Premier now offers complete control over primer design and design parameters in your hands. Using the manual primer search option, you can click any nucleotide on the template sequence to get primers at the location of your choice. Primer Premier designs a primer with its 3' end located at that nucleotide and analyzes its properties instantly, helping you decide the best possible design given the needs of the experiment. The length of the primer can also be increased/decreased, per your convenience.

Sequence editing is now possible. Unwanted regions of sequences can be removed or manipulated.

Primer Premier enables setting a minimum distance between alternate amplicons which makes it possible for you to cover different regions of the sequence and zero-in on the best possible design.

Pre-designed or published primers can now be analyzed in any orientation for a chosen template sequence. The program specifies if the primers are homologous to the sequence in forward, reverse, complementary or reverse-complementary orientations. Pre-designed primers can be analyzed with respect to a template sequence even with mismatches. Primer Premier compiles a list of all possible primer binding sites.

Primer Premier 6.00 Released

Primer Premier now comes with a new improved graphical user interface, making PCR primer design both intuitive and easy for users.

The primer search algorithm is improved considerably to avoid homologies and template structures, making the primers designed by Primer Premier highly specific and efficient. The primer specificity can be ascertained using verification BLAST.

Primer Premier can now help design 10-plex multiplex assay.

Pre-designed primers or published primers can now be analyzed. Primer Premier can even design a compatible primer given a forward or reverse primer.

With a sequence view now available, its easy to visualize the designed primers with respect to the sequence. You can copy-paste sequences from the view and analyze them in the program as well.

Primer Premier has enhanced sequence import limits. You can work with 5MB of sequence at a time and a total of 15MB of sequence can be loaded.